James Keenan, S.J., one of the most important Catholic scholars of theological ethics in the United States, traces the revered history of moral theology from the New Testament to the present in A ...

Participants in the February 2016 conference, "Conscience and Catholic Health Care: From Clinical Contexts to Government Mandates." Conscience issues abound in Catholic health care in a pluralist ...

It is a truism, perhaps especially in left-leaning Catholic circles, that Catholic social teaching is the church's best-kept secret. Marcus Mescher's The Ethics of Encounter: Christian Neighbor Love ...

A comprehensive guide to medical ethics, based on the teachings of the Catholic Church, has just been released by Connor Court Publishing in Australia. The text was originally assembled and edited by ...

Whether by insurance or preference, Catholic health care’s presence in the United States is hard to ignore. In a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the authors noted that 16 percent of ...

The April 1-2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to deepen the theological foundations of ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked its Committee on Doctrine to address issues such as transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for a proposed update to the bishops’ “Ethical and ...

The National Catholic Bioethics center is now providing 24/7 expert advice to business leaders who are members of the international organization Legatus. When you’re running a business, ethical issues ...

On March 26, 2014, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson spoke to an international meeting of the InterAction Council, an association of former presidents and prime ...

Disability is a global reality about which too few give thought until they, a family member, or friend experiences disability first-hand. As a result, people without immediate experience or regular ...

As conditions in Afghanistan become chaotic, and the likelihood increases that Western nations will be called on to accept an influx of Afghan refugees, more and more Catholics will turn their focus ...

With a Roman Catholic nominated by a major party, the 2020 presidential election cannot help being another fraught moment in the long argument about how to be Catholic in American public life. The ...